If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening. — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I mean, wha comfort does pretendin to be a Buddhist or wharrever give him? What's wrong with pretendin to be a Catholic… — Trevor Byrne Copy Share Image
My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You… — Jeremy Enigk Copy Share Image
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“him the ordinary man whose Buddhist spirituality often flickered, really just questing for inner silence with not too much of an outer… — Marie-Claire Blais Copy Share Image
Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Dalai Lama began by saying it’s not possible for everyone to be a Christian or a Buddhist. “There’s no other choice… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
In Aryans' Discipline, to build a friendship is to build wealth, To maintain a friendship is to maintain wealth and To end… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't care whether you're Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, or no religion at all. Jesus Christ still loves you. You… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act according You are like a cowherd counting others' cattle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted… — Dave Wakeling Copy Share Image
While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
There's only two classes of people: terrorists and non-terrorists. Terrorists come in every flavour: there are Buddhist terrorists right now killing Rohingya… — Malcolm Wrightson Nance Copy Share Image
He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release -… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I came to California in 1970 and so many people were asking if I was a Buddhist or knew Zen theory, asking… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
